On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 20:47:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
What's the difference compared to any other build tool. Where
you have to learn some kind of special syntax. This is a
special syntax as well, just happens to be a real language as
well.
In D could be quite elegant. Here a simplified sample how I think
it could look like:
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// Builder Library
module dlang.builder;
struct Target
{
string output;
string[] source;
string[] libs;
}
alias Target Executable;
alias Target StaticLib;
struct Environment
{
bool tests = false;
bool verbose = false;
string[] importDirs;
}
mixin template Builder()
{
int main(string[] args)
{
// enumerate and build the targets...
}
}
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// build.d in project folder
#!/usr/bin/env rdmd
import dlang.builder;
// version(X) to differentiate
Environment env = {
tests: true,
verbose: true,
importDirs: ["../deimos"]
}
Executable myapp = {
output: "myapp.exe",
source: ["app/a.d", "app/b.d"],
libs: ["libutil"]
}
StaticLib libutil = {
source: ["util/*.d"]
}
mixin Builder;
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invocation would be basically rdmd build.d
./build.d --variant=release --toolset=dmd_2_060
